Ahh, now I see this once i get my pc usable again. I may just try this
depending on my last results today with Oneiric. Mint doesn't sound
suitable for power users yet if they're making hacks for
encryption/raid, but at this point can't be any worse than ubuntu.
I have to say, after
Somebody has a whole-disk-encryption script that works in Mint! I'm
going to try it at some point soon myself.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42t=69032
It's been tested in Mint10 but that's still deep into the Ext4 era so,
it ought to work? I'm in the same boat, without whole disk